07-19-2018, 09:49 PM
/it's all good fam, sorry for the lateness + rushed ending
Rin was smelling the four herbs she had assigned a lot more this week than in the weeks before it. Extending the tryouts had evidently been a good idea, but that raised the question of how she was going to decide who she would promote. Most of the candidates so far had a lot going for them.
Following the scent of herbs, she exited the observatory and saw Suiteheart, Thea, and Atreus standing out there. Atreus was the one holding the herbs, signifying that they were the one trying out- an interesting turn of events, but not completely out of left field. With a nod, she padded over to them, opening her mouth to speak.
“I do, I want to help, I just... I don't want to be the cause of someone's death.”
Rin stopped right in her tracks, brows furrowing as a wave of... she wasn’t even sure what to call it washed over her. She could pick out the familiar guilt that she had borne after Starrynight’s fall, after Margaery and Suiteheart both had their brushes with death, after Lunafreya was forcibly turned into a vampire, but even then there was something else. A bizarre deja vu, almost like the one she had experienced when listening to Suiteheart’s singing for the very first time.
Perhaps she had held a sentiment like that in her past life, and an especially strong sentiment at that, but what could have happened to her to instill such a fear in her?
Blinking, she focused in on Atreus again, and nodded solemnly. ”I understand the feeling,” she said, curling her tail around her paws. ”Even when you have the know-how, the skills, sometimes things happen that you can’t really prepare for.”
After a few moments, she shook her head. ”You’ve done well. Now, you should rest.” Tiredness may have been a trait they all shared, but she didn’t need to be encouraging it.
Rin was smelling the four herbs she had assigned a lot more this week than in the weeks before it. Extending the tryouts had evidently been a good idea, but that raised the question of how she was going to decide who she would promote. Most of the candidates so far had a lot going for them.
Following the scent of herbs, she exited the observatory and saw Suiteheart, Thea, and Atreus standing out there. Atreus was the one holding the herbs, signifying that they were the one trying out- an interesting turn of events, but not completely out of left field. With a nod, she padded over to them, opening her mouth to speak.
“I do, I want to help, I just... I don't want to be the cause of someone's death.”
Rin stopped right in her tracks, brows furrowing as a wave of... she wasn’t even sure what to call it washed over her. She could pick out the familiar guilt that she had borne after Starrynight’s fall, after Margaery and Suiteheart both had their brushes with death, after Lunafreya was forcibly turned into a vampire, but even then there was something else. A bizarre deja vu, almost like the one she had experienced when listening to Suiteheart’s singing for the very first time.
Perhaps she had held a sentiment like that in her past life, and an especially strong sentiment at that, but what could have happened to her to instill such a fear in her?
Blinking, she focused in on Atreus again, and nodded solemnly. ”I understand the feeling,” she said, curling her tail around her paws. ”Even when you have the know-how, the skills, sometimes things happen that you can’t really prepare for.”
After a few moments, she shook her head. ”You’ve done well. Now, you should rest.” Tiredness may have been a trait they all shared, but she didn’t need to be encouraging it.
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